July 2008 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] replace gqview and gqview-devel with geeqie
by Tobias Kieslich 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi, I just noticed that both gqview and gqview-devel got updated and that reminded me that the gqview project is essentially defunct. Saying that, there is a fork called geeqie and we do have a package for the alpha version in the aur. This version is basically a gqview-devel with some patches. Iwas using gqview-devel with out a crash for the last year and switched to geeqie by the end of April. No crashing there either. So I would like to bring geeqie to extra, and by the same time abandon the gqview packages. any objections? -T

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[arch-dev-public] Public SVN access
by Aaron Griffin 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hey guys, I want to setup public svn access, so some of the crazy users that want to check things out over SVN can do so. First off, if anyone has experience with this, please let me know if svnserve is the best way to go here. Secondly, I was wondering if there's anyway to check/block the stupid people that are going to check out the entire freaking repo and waste gerolde resources. I know people will do this, people are going to be stupid and bog down gerolde's bandwidth, but people keep emailing me crying "I want svn access!", and I'm sick of it. So I want to enable svn access with the caveat that you "don't check out the full repo, you jackass - use ABS for that"

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[arch-dev-public] GPL Compliance: A beginning
by Aaron Griffin 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

So, yeah people are blowing smoke about this hosting the sources thing. That's fine, it's a legit violation... I made a little script which should generate some of these things... I'm testing it now, as it's not fully "live" just yet: http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/sources/ Here's something neat which is an added bonus: any one of these things can be used to build the entire package when offline. Download the src.tar.gz, extract, and makepkg. One big lingering issue: do we need different source tarballs for each arch? My instincts tell me yes, for a few reasons: * I recall some PKGBUILDs having CARCH based 'if's around the sources * Some packages are only in one arch or another Does anyone know of a way to solve this... I don't want to bloat the disk usage for a few special cases? mayeb md5sum and symlink?

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.26-1 and related module packages
by Thomas Bächler 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

So this is it, 2.6.26 is going to testing. I adjusted the configuration according to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10512 and changed the maximum number of CPUs to 16. I hope I didn't miss any configuration bugs, if so, please tell me. Except some driver updates, there is nothing too exciting here. Just a few remarks: Kernel stuff: - uvesafb needs the new v86d from testing now (old one segfaults) - bcm43xx has been removed, all users must switch to b43 or b43legacy and use b43-fwcutter for firmware extraction. I am removing bcm43xx-fwcutter from core, as it is obsolete. - Someone should test squashfs, unionfs and aufs and report if they work (Simo?) If there is more, please tell me :) Module packages: - I patched catalyst with a weird patch to make it work, please anyone test and report! - intel-536ep and intel-537 don't compile. I didn't look closely yet, and frankly, I doubt they have much users. Do we really want to maintain them? - lirc is broken, maybe an update to 0.8.3 will fix it. Can the maintainer take care of this? I don't know when I'll get to it. - madwifi is broken. Do we still need it? AFAIK, all chipsets should now be supported by ath5k by now. Can a madwifi user please look at this (Aaron, Dan?) - martian is broken again. A user sent me patches last time, I have to look for his email address, maybe he fixes it again (user whose name I forgot, if you are reading this, please contact me). - I didn't try openswan-klips, any updates here? (tomk?) - wlan-ng26 is broken and I'd like to drop it, as I doubt anybody uses it. - I updated nvidia-71xx and nvidia-96xx to new upstream release for 2.6.26 compatibility. i686 is untested, so I need at least two signoffs. x86_64 works fine.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.2.0
by Dan McGee 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Pacman 3.2.0 is in testing for i686. Please signoff. Changes outlined here: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=NEWS Can someone build it for x86_64? Thanks. On a side note, I'm gone for most of this upcoming weekend, so you may want to wait until next week to move this to core even if it has the requisite signoffs unless you guys want to put out any fires. -Dan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] dnsutils/bind
by K. Piche 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Sorry about the multiple pkgrels for i686. When Paul said libcap was missing I didn't realize it was never used in earlier releases. I still haven't seen any concrete signoffs - just a conditional one from Paul for i686. I'll migrate the packages in a few days regardless. On a different note: anyone going to OLS this year? k -- K. Piche <kpiche(a)rogers.com>

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[arch-dev-public] ncurses todo list?
by Allan McRae 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi all, Does anybody have a ncurses build list? I am building ncurses with only the wide-character libraries which should hopefully clear up a few of the locale issues with applications using it (e.g. FS#4418, FS#6384, FS#9872). The current situation is sort of between doing this and not (we have only the wide character include files but both libraries). After some initial problems (don't install an ncurses without a real libncurses.so before fixing readline & bash!), I have this up and working and most of the needed core rebuilds done. I'm thinking I will push it to a separate repo first so that I can get some testing of this by people with other locales before I push it to [testing]. Cheers, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [namcap][PATCH] remove /usr/man from standard dirs
by Pierre Schmitz 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hi, here is a small patch to namcap which removes /usr/man from the standrd dirs. This should help stopping us storing man pages there and make Eric happy. :-) Would be nice if someone could apply this to git. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 31-07-2008 06:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup soprano-2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup soprano-2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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[arch-dev-public] Repository Maintenance 31-07-2008 03:00
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Scan complete for extra (i686) at /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mythbrowser-0.21-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz skim-1.4.5-2.pkg.tar.gz Scan complete for extra (x86_64) at /home/ftp/extra/os/x86_64/ The following files are out of date They will be moved to /home/package-cleanup mythbrowser-0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz skim-1.4.5-2.pkg.tar.gz

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